This week Amelia Sciandra chats with Rebekah Smith, known as 'The Film Festival Doctor' offering advice and mentoring for filmmakers who are on the festival circuit. She is the author of the book "Film Festivals & Looking After Your Mental Health". If you've ever wondered HOW TO MAKE THE MOST out of your film festival submissions, then look now further! The IMPORTANT DO'S and DONT'S are right here. 

Host James Walker chats with Steve Potts and Jessica Bradley from Helion Partners, LIVE from the Media Production & Technology Show. Helion is a leading M&A adviser to the media sector, with unrivalled expertise and experience in advising owners in the TV production, kids IP, advertising, marketing and creative services industries on maximising the value of their businesses on a sale or in a fundraising. Find out what does and doesn't get funded to increase your chances of getting your film made!
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Host James Walker, coming live from the Canon Podcast booth at the Media Production & Technology Show, chats with Brian Moseley & Andrew Wilson about how they make incredible BBC and Netflix television shows and movies sound amazing. There's MORE TO SOUND THAN YOU KNOW! Learn about what its like working on great natural history shows with DAVID ATTENBOROUGH, including PLANET EARTH, BAKE OFF, SUPER/NATURAL and MORE.
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VIDEO VERSION available on YouTube.
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Host James Walker coming LIVE from partner Canon's podcasting booth in the Media Production and Technology Show. Students Calypso and Ashton tell ALL about their incredible experience starring in 'Strings', the student film made as part of Project Paradiso 2024.

Project Paradiso is a prestige project from Young Film Academy (FA), offering a select group of YA's most promising students aged 16-20 the chance to create a stunning short film in a cinematic location in Sicily, Italy.

This ambitious not-for-profit project unites educational training with a real-world film industry opportunity - offering participants the experience of a lifetime.

VIDEO VERSION available on YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N6X--3ut-1Q&pp=ygUQeW91bmdmaWxtYWNhZGVteQ%3D%3D
Host James Walker coming LIVE from partner Canon's podcasting booth in the Media Production and Technology Show. Students tell ALL about their incredible experience making short film 'Strings', and being chosen for Project Paradiso 2024. 
Project Paradiso is a prestige project from Young Film Academy (YFA), offering a select group of YFA’s most promising students aged 16-20 the chance to create a stunning short film in a cinematic location in Sicily, Italy.
This ambitious not-for-profit project unites educational training with a real-world film industry opportunity – offering participants the experience of a lifetime.

Hosts Amelia Sciandra and Dan Allen chat with award-winning documentary filmmaker Eriksen Dickens about his work as a storyteller and a filmmaker for hire! Hear about his personal loss of his father which turned into the foundation for everything he has built with his brother at Platinum Peek and Dickens Brothers! 

Hosts Dan Allen and Amelia Sciandra chat with the brilliant and incredibly versatile actor Fiona Dourif. She is known for her role as Bart Curlish in BBC America's Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency and as the young Diane Jones in Dustin Lance Black's When We Rise, as well as featuring in Christopher Nolan's Tenet. Hear about her journey, the crazy world of auditions, what it's like acting opposite her father as well as BEING her father...?!?! 

Hosts Dan Allen and James Walker chat with legendary blockbuster film editor Eddie Hamilton about his work on some of the biggest movies on the planet, including all the latest Mission Impossible films from Dead Reckoning to Rogue Nation, as well as the highly acclaimed Top Gun Sequel, Maverick! As a frequent collaborator with both Christopher McQuarrie and Matthew Vaughn, he's  also worked on Kick-Ass, Kingsman, X-Men, the list goes on! Make sure you check out his resources on his website too eddiehamilton.com where you can see all of his Avid Media Composer timelines too!

Hosts Dan Allen and James Walker chat with legendary writer ABOUT cinema, Sam Wasson. His works include the biography Fosse, the history books Improv Nation: How We Made a Great American Art and The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the Last Years of Hollywood and the co-authored Hollywood: The Oral History.
Find out how to actually sit down and get your writing DONE! & what makes a writer tick and how to work out what to write about!!!

Hosts Dan Allen and Amelia Sciandra chat with costume designer Samantha Hobart about how to REALLY do costume in film. It's not just about looking good... and it's more than just frills... Learn what not to do and how to do great work on a budget, whilst ALSO thinking about genre and how that affects the decisions.